MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 227, 26 September 1942, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“Ships With Wings,” screening at the Majestic Theatre to-day, is a thoroughly exciting piece, full of spies, raids, crashes, air battles, minefields, and bursting dams. It has some roaring, spectacular stuff, a scrap or two of love interest, a bit of bulldog breed, and John Clements, in his. popular part of the gallant young gentleman wrongly accused of being not quite gallant, or not quite a gentleman. But it has something more; it has the solid background of the Fleet Air Arm. Behind all the film cliches (for, frankly, they are cliches) of the Nazi agent, the sub-lieutenant with the pretty sister, the disgraced flier piloting for the obscure island airline and the cabaret singer, as faithful as she is fashionable, dropping in to console him, there is the story far stranger, far more dreadful and moving, of the life of an aircraft-carrier. There' is the story of a new weapon in naval warfare, a weapon mistrusted, but at long last tried in the hands of brave men, and heroically proved. This is, as it should be, the real theme of "Ships With Wings.”